Henri Thomas

French writer and poet

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Henri Thomas (7 December 1912 – 3 November 1993) was a French writer and poet.

## Life

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Henri Thomas was born at Anglemont, Vosges, and grew up in the Alsace/Lorraine region of France. He moved to Paris to attend the prestigious Henri IV high school, working with the noted essayist Alain. However, his teaching and academic career faltered and he dedicated himself to writing full-time from 1935. He mixed with many influential intellectuals and writers in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s, most notably Gide and Paulhan. His first novel "The Coal Bucket" was published by Gallimard in 1940, as were the majority of his literary productions (novels, short stories, journals, poems, essays, etc.) for the next forty-odd years. In the 1940s he did his military service, got married, worked on a number of literary reviews and separated from his wife.

In 1945, Thomas took a job with the BBC in London and lived and worked there for about ten years. Also during this period, he met the woman who would later become his second wife and their daughter was born while the couple were in London.

In 1958, he was hired as a professor at Brandeis University in the United States, where he lived and worked for two years.

After his return to France in 1960 he worked as a literary editor and translator at Gallimard and spent his time primarily in Paris and in Brittany, although after his second wife died in 1965, Thomas began to live mostly in Brittany. He moved to a rest home in Paris in 1991 after his health failed and died there in 1993.

## Works

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### Novels (partial list)

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* The Coal Bucket (1940)
* The Tutor (1942)
* Living Together (1945)
* The Deserters (1951)
* London Night (1956)
* John Perkins (1960)
* The Last Year"(1960)
* The Promontory (1961)
* Perjury (1964)
* The Relic (1969)

### Short story collections (partial list)

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* The Target (1955)
* The Story of Pierrot and Several Others (1960)

### Poetry

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* Poetry (1970)

### Translations

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* He translated Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs (1939) to French

## References

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* Patrice Bougon and Marc Dambre ed. : Henri Thomas. L'écriture du secret, Champ Vallon, France, 2007, 288 p.

## External links

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Société des lecteurs de Henri Thomas

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Laureates of the Prix Femina

1904–1925|

* 1904 Myriam Harry
* 1905 Romain Rolland
* 1906 André Corthis
* 1907 Colette Yver
* 1908 Édouard Estaunié
* 1909 Edmond Jaloux
* 1910 Marguerite Audoux
* 1911 Louis de Robert
* 1912 Jacques Morel
* 1913 Camille Marbo
* 1914
* 1915
* 1916
* 1917 Maurice Larrouy
* 1918 Henri Bachelin
* 1919 Roland Dorgelès
* 1920 Edmond Gojon
* 1921 Raymond Escholier
* 1922 Jacques de Lacretelle
* 1923 Jeanne Galzy
* 1924 Charles Derennes
* 1925 Joseph Delteil

1926–1950|

* 1926 Charles Silvestre
* 1927 Marie Le Franc
* 1928 Dominique Dunois
* 1929 Georges Bernanos
* 1930 Marc Chadourne
* 1931 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
* 1932 Ramon Fernandez [fr]
* 1933 Geneviève Fauconnier
* 1934 Robert Francis
* 1935 Claude Silve
* 1936 Louise Hervieu
* 1937 Raymonde Vincent
* 1938 Félix de Chazournes
* 1939 Paul Vialar
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944 Éditions de Minuit (publisher)
* 1945 Anne-Marie Monnet
* 1946 Michel Robida
* 1947 Gabrielle Roy
* 1948 Emmanuel Roblès
* 1949 Maria Le Hardouin
* 1950 Serge Groussard

1951–1975|

* 1951 Anne de Tourville
* 1952 Dominique Rolin
* 1953 Zoé Oldenbourg
* 1954 Gabriel Veraldi
* 1955 André Dhôtel
* 1956 François-Régis Bastide
* 1957 Christian Mégret
* 1958 Françoise Mallet-Joris
* 1959 Bernard Privat
* 1960 Louise Bellocq
* 1961 Henri Thomas
* 1962 Yves Berger
* 1963 Roger Vrigny
* 1964 Jean Blanzat
* 1965 Robert Pinget
* 1966 Irène Monesi
* 1967 Claire Etcherelli
* 1968 Marguerite Yourcenar
* 1969 Jorge Semprún
* 1970 François Nourissier
* 1971 Angelo Rinaldi
* 1972 Roger Grenier
* 1973 Michel Dard
* 1974 René-Victor Pilhes
* 1975 Claude Faraggi

1976–2000|

* 1976 Marie-Louise Haumont
* 1977 Régis Debray
* 1978 François Sonkin
* 1979 Pierre Moinot
* 1980 Jocelyne François
* 1981 Catherine Hermary-Vieille
* 1982 Anne Hébert
* 1983 Florence Delay
* 1984 Bertrand Visage
* 1985 Hector Bianciotti
* 1986 René Belletto
* 1987 Alain Absire
* 1988 Alexandre Jardin
* 1989 Sylvie Germain
* 1990 Pierrette Fleutiaux
* 1991 Paula Jacques
* 1992 Anne-Marie Garat
* 1993 Marc Lambron
* 1994 Olivier Rolin
* 1995 Emmanuel Carrère
* 1996 Geneviève Brisac
* 1997 Dominique Noguez
* 1998 François Cheng
* 1999 Maryline Desbiolles
* 2000 Camille Laurens

2001–present|

* 2001 Marie NDiaye
* 2002 Chantal Thomas
* 2003 Dai Sijie
* 2004 Jean-Paul Dubois
* 2005 Régis Jauffret
* 2006 Nancy Huston
* 2007 Éric Fottorino
* 2007 Gwenaëlle Aubry
* 2008 Jean-Louis Fournier
* 2010 Patrick Lapeyre
* 2011 Simon Liberati
* 2012 Patrick Deville
* 2013 Léonora Miano
* 2014 Yanick Lahens
* 2015 Christophe Boltanski
* 2016 Marcus Malte
* 2017 Philippe Jaenada
* 2018 Philippe Lançon
* 2019 Sylvain Prudhomme
* 2020 Serge Joncour
* 2021 Clara Dupont-Monod
* 2022 Claudie Hunzinger [fr]
* 2023 Neige Sinno
* 2024 Miguel Bonnefoy

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Laureates of the Prix Médicis

1958–1975|

* 1958: Claude Ollier
* 1959: Claude Mauriac
* 1960: Henri Thomas
* 1961: Philippe Sollers
* 1962: Colette Audry
* 1963: Gérard Jarlot
* 1964: Monique Wittig
* 1965: René-Victor Pilhes
* 1966: Marie-Claire Blais
* 1967: Claude Simon
* 1968: Elie Wiesel
* 1969: Hélène Cixous
* 1970: Camille Bourniquel
* 1971: Pascal Lainé
* 1972: Maurice Clavel
* 1973: Tony Duvert
* 1974: Dominique Fernandez
* 1975: Jacques Almira

1976–2000|

* 1976: Marc Cholodenko
* 1977: Michel Butel
* 1978: Georges Perec
* 1979: Claude Durand
* 1980: Jean Lahougue (declined award)
* 1980: Jean-Luc Benoziglio
* 1981: François-Olivier Rousseau
* 1982: Jean-François Josselin
* 1983: Jean Echenoz
* 1984: Bernard-Henri Lévy
* 1985: Michel Braudeau
* 1986: Pierre Combescot
* 1987: Pierre Mertens
* 1988: Christiane Rochefort
* 1989: Serge Doubrovsky
* 1990: Jean-Noël Pancrazi
* 1991: Yves Simon
* 1992: Michel Rio
* 1993: Emmanuèle Bernheim
* 1994: Yves Berger
* 1995: Vassilis Alexakis and Andreï Makine
* 1996: Jacqueline Harpman and Jean Rolin
* 1997: Philippe Le Guillou
* 1998: Homéric
* 1999: Christian Oster
* 2000: Yann Apperry

2001–present|

* 2001: Benoît Duteurtre
* 2002: Anne F. Garréta
* 2003: Hubert Mingarelli
* 2004: Marie Nimier
* 2005: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
* 2006: Sorj Chalandon
* 2007: Jean Hatzfeld
* 2008: Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès
* 2009: Dany Laferrière
* 2010: Maylis de Kerangal
* 2011: Mathieu Lindon
* 2012: Emmanuelle Pireyre
* 2013: Marie Darrieussecq
* 2014: Antoine Volodine
* 2016: Ivan Jablonka
* 2017: Yannick Haenel
* 2018: Pierre Guyotat
* 2019: Luc Lang
* 2020: Chloé Delaume
* 2021: Christine Angot
* 2022: Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
* 2023: Kev Lambert
* 2024: Julia Deck

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